There were scenes reminiscent , of a' football scrimmage outside the Government shipping office in Albert street Auckland, on Tuesday afternoon when a new crew for the Kaitoko was being signed on. There were vacancies for 15 engine room hands, nine deck hands and five stewards and cooks, and a crowd of seamen about .150 strftng rolled up to apply for them. The clerk was besieged-outside the office in Albert street by a crowd of men . waving their papers aloft and. was pushed in the throng from one side of the pavement to the other, and up and down the street. All was in good part, and when a crew was finally selected the unlucky ones departed with goodhumoured gibes at their comrades. Complete with platform, waitingroom and bookstalls an omnibus station is to bo built in Glasgow. • ; Burglars in a. Wimbledon house took £SO worth -of £6OO worth'of jewellery, and. plate. ... London County Council carry more thanS m £UBh h«iyq »l a&Jfc
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18722, 19 June 1926, Page 16
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